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Lead qualification handled by a classifier, with a human signing rather than writing. Aimed at hvac & plumbing owner-operators, surfacing the exposure nobody has priced.
In short: Lead Qualifier for HVAC & plumbing, Run by Classification is a classifier aimed at hvac & plumbing owner-operators, covering lead qualification. It scores 73/100 on AltF Ideas, carried by feasibility (94) and held back by moat (28). Typical pricing is $900–$17k per customer per year, with a first version reachable in a weekend for $3.0k–$7.0k.
HVAC & plumbing teams lose a pipeline where nobody knows which half is real. It is the kind of task that is too small to fund and too costly to ignore. The error rate is tolerated because measuring it would cost more than the errors.
A classifier that handles lead qualification end to end and hands a human the exceptions rather than the queue. Revenue is seat saas, which suits a buyer who wants the cost to track the value rather than the seat count.
| Total addressable market | $303M |
|---|---|
| Category growth (CAGR) | 17% |
| Annual contract value | $900 – $17k |
| Pricing model | Seat SaaS |
| Time to first revenue | 55 days |
| Startup cost to MVP | $3.0k – $7.0k |
| Build effort | Weekend |
Classification quality crossed the threshold where a human stops double-checking. HVAC & plumbing is growing at roughly 16% a year, and this job has not been re-tooled since it was designed around paper.
| Who | The gap |
|---|---|
| The incumbent suite | Sells a platform; this job is one neglected module inside it |
| A spreadsheet | The real incumbent in most of the market, and it is free |
| A generalist AI tool | No domain grounding, so output needs full human review |
The incumbent is a person, and displacing a person is a change-management problem.
An idea you cannot act on is entertainment. Four concrete steps, wired to tools already running on AltFTool.
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